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rive-year-old uorotny Kline usually waited on the school porch for her aunt, student Elizabeth Browning, to walk home with her. This day, “Miss Mary” pushed little Dorothy through the gate, telling her, “Dorothy, run and run for your life.” Others from Miss Mary's class were blown and scattered by the wind.
When the lower grade students were out of the building, Mrs. Browning had her students line up to march out. Leading the column, the teacher and her 13-year-old pupil, Elizabeth Browning (now Mrs. George Graves), had reached the landing that separated the two flights of stairs going to the upper classroom.
Marshall Hawkins, breaking from the line, had reached the bottom of the stairway. While most of the children were still on the upper stairs, Louise Jenkins (now Mrs. Jonas Alther) says, “The window lights in the school started breaking. I heard the wind roaring.”
Mrs. Browning grabbed Elizabeth’s left wrist, crying, “Lord, what will I do with these poor little children?” Hearing ‘this, Elizabeth glanced up, “1 saw the walls of the school going up. That was the last of it.” She heard later that the building with its heavy desks and stoves was lifted entirely off the foundation and was shattered by the force of the wind. •
After the storm, Dorothy Kline’s mother found her at the home of Charlie Wallace. His house was at the bottom of the hill from the schoolhouse on the edge of the hard surfaced road.
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